Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A piece of music from a rock opera by Roger Glover of Deep Purple, based on the poem The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by William Roscoe. This short was intended to be part of a longer film.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sometimes in my travels, I run into a mystery animation that nobody seems to know anything about. This is one of them. Things like music videos and commercials can be especially problematic in this regard.

Unknown Artist (Ralph Bakshi?) animated Oscar Brown Jr's "But I Was Cool"
recorded on VCR in 1988 from a Munich, Germany loval TV-Station.
If you have any further information on this clip, please contact party-keller@gmx.net.

(The animation style does look a little similar to Bakshi's, but I'm not 100% convinced it's him. I'm tagging this as 1960s, as the song was recorded in 1960 and teh animation is stylistically consistent with that time period. I COULD BE TOTALLY WRONG)

I'll try to figure out who animated this and when, as I always like to credit the artists. Hopefully someone else can help. Apparently, this was part of a segment that appeared on Night Flight. We'll see if that helps.

ETA - I know it's been a while, but I am about, oh, 80% sure that the animator here is John Wilson. It looks like his style, and it seems like the kind of project he would do. Very much in his (ahem) wheelhouse.

MYSTERY SOLVED! The animator is Barrie Nelson, and this is an excerpt from the 1971 film Keep Cool.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The original title of this cartoon was Gremlins from the Kremlin, but producer Leon Schlesinger changed the title to "Russian Rhapsody" when Disney began making its own wartime short about Gremlins, and asked other studios to not produce films about them.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

I know I have a high tolerance for watching animation when I don't have English subtitles or dubbing. If it's cool enough, I post it in hopes that at least some of you have that same tolerance. (The fact that half the visitors I get are from countries where English isn't the first language emboldens me in that regard.)

Here, I have a few versions of the same animation, which handle the language differently.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

It's been a YEAR! I have posted 365 cartoons (I have too. The first post has the ones starting from March 13th, Mr. Picky Pants.)

A cartoon every damn day. A year without pants.

And I haven't run out. Not only that, people seem to be making more, and some of them are really good. I also keep finding gems that I have never seen before.

I hope it's been fun for you, because it's been incredible for me. Something that started out as a very casual thing has taught me a lot. I have seen so much beautiful, weird, stunning, disturbing, hilarious and amazing work from all over the world that I never would have sought out without the pressure of daily presentation. In the coming year, I promise will continue stuffing as much animation in my eyeholes as humanly possible, in lieu of doing something like ending world hunger or curing cancer and stuff, so that I may continue to bring your daily diversion.

There are so many brilliant and dedicated people in the world, bringing us this wonderful art. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for doing so. It's hard, frequently thankless and not terribly lucrative work (Please buy their stuff and give them money. Please.) Every animator out there who might be reading this, I appreciate you so much for everything you do, and for the joy you have brought to me and the eight other people who look at this blog. Thank you.

SO ANYWAY OFF WITH THE TROUSERS AND ON WITH THE CARTOON.

Today, you get a special treat. Normally, I wouldn't post a feature length film, but today is special and so is this.

Fehérlófia (Son of the White Mare) is an incredible film by Hungarian animator Marcell Jancovics. It's particularly fascinating because it maintains its lovely, colorful graphic style throughout - very unusual for a feature film. I have no idea how I hadn't heard of this before I did, because it's extraordinary.

It's in nine parts. I know that's not the ideal way to watch a feature. if anyone knows where I can buy this on DVD, please tell me.

ETA - The channel with the subbed version was taken down. Someone has uploaded the first two parts with subs: I have also found the full film without.

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Or how 'bout let's try this version from our saviors at Archive.org! Full movie with subtitles!

(I notice that this is one of my most frequently linked and visited posts, so I like to keep it fresh.)

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